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﻿﻿﻿Oh my! Today is a day the boys travel in time! Whether it’s to tell you the comic news (because it’s recorded several weeks before it airs!), or Bry goes to back over a decade to make a superhero movie better, or we go ALLLLL the way back and talk prehistoric characters…. this is the length they go to to entertain! You’ll hear such bits as…. the super soldier sermon…just going to get space cigarettes baby!… Lex needs a face on his tummy… that’s right, his last name is STEGRON!….his father was a neanderthal who was just set in his ways….this is the 30 seconds we talk about that comic we haven’t read…my favourite part is when they refer to dinosaurs as honkers… How old is Zabu? Cut it open and count the rings…so Tony Shalhoub takes up archery…. AND SO MUCH MORE!!!! Join us, won’t you…

Wakanda foreeeeveeer! Today, in advance of Black Panther coming out (oh, it’s out now? Cool, go see that!), we’re talking about T’Challa. From origins to current incarnation, we feel bad about not being smart enough to cover it all.

Plus! In advance of forgetting Valentines Day (look, we record these things in advance), we find some make-up gifts using the 1991 Marvel trading cards, and have a super-villain-or-actual-serial-killer quotes quiz. More fun than you can shake a bing bead at this week on Zero Issues!

﻿Today is storytime! The boys create spellbinding stories linking the unlinkable, saying the unthinkable, skating the unrinkable! It’s the Connections Game! Hear stories linking Scooby Doo to HP Lovecraft to Mad Max! Roger the Humunculus to Shazam and a mother box! And SO MUCH MORE! All that AND a SUPER quiz by Bry Bry! And have you ever thought about how many times someone was just punched into space in the comics? Us too….. well, NOW we have. All that plus a sack o’ news! Saddle up kids! Time for storytime! Oh and happy Valentines Day. Whatever.

Whatever happens in Madripoor stays in Madripoor! The boys once again welcome Ryan the TBay Movie Guy to talk SECRET IDENTITIES – the history of the alter ego, the heroes who use them, the ones who go public, the methods and effectiveness of hiding your masked self, the real-life celebrities who share a civilian name with superheroes, and more!

Also! Kyle guides us in a round of Six Degrees of Batman, we dig into news about Captain Marvel and Dragon Ball Super, and then perform another dynamic Dramatic Reading of the classic comic where Superman adopted Jimmy Olsen!

This week, the boys are joined by Ryan Mackett, the TBay Movie Guy, to answer the year-or-three-old question: are comic books killing movies? The answer may surprise yo if you’ve never listened to the show before and think that we think comics are killing movies.

Plus: So much news discussion it’s almost criminal (but it isn’t, we checked and everything), casting ’70s He-Man AND genderswap Batman film franchises, and more delicious recipe…names!

This week the guys reach into the Cursed Longbox of the Damned, not knowing what they will pull out. Is it horror? Super heroics? Eroticism? Yes.

Also: Character Storm wriggles its way back into our hearts, and Kyle tries to be a serious reviewer of biographies. They just happen to be biographies done in the graphic novel style, and there’s nothing wrong with that Margaret!

This week the boys take a look at probably nobody’s favourite Avenger, Triathalon, and try to find a way to make the much-unloved character better! There are at least two really solid ideas in here, we promise!

Also: We sort through a Completely Objective ranking of the worst-to-best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles songs, and then pitch a smorgasbord of inevitable (and inevitably ridiculous) licensed comic crossovers! And you know that means Ash, Garfield, Howard the Duck, and more Kurt Russells than you can count!

A new year has arrived, landed upon our doorstep like a much needed word of encouragement after a year of wtf moments. For the first episode of 2018 we do a year in review….we have to…. just to make sense of it all. The Marvel PR nightmare that was 2017 obviously dominates the look back but we also talk comics we enjoyed and then turn our gaze ever forward….. 2018, what will you bring? There is light on the horizon, starting with Snagglepuss. We also talk Diamond distribution. What will the year bring for the monopoly? And personal creations… what are Bry, Kyle & Merk up to comic wise? All that plus- Kyle explores what superheroes do to make ends meet. Doc Oc’s Otto shop? And Bry has an episode of League of Baldos with our first bald woman entry!! And no, it’s not that woman from the Star Trek film. Join us!!!

It’s that time of the season again!
HOLIDAY HALF PINTS!!! 12 mini episodes leading up to Dec 25th!
Episode 12!! WE’RE HERE!! WE MADE IT! Happy Pintmas! For the big day we’re talking about holiday traditions. What do your favourite comic characters do at Xmas? And by favourite, I mean Damien Hellstorm, Matter Eater Lad and several other choice cuts. Warning…. we get kind of filthy… especially for a christmas day show. Oh well. We gotta be us. Join us for the FINAL sips of the ol’ half pint. Cheers to everyone!!

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It’s that time of the season again!
HOLIDAY HALF PINTS!!! 12 mini episodes leading up to Dec 25th!
Episode 11!! Oh sweet baby Jesus, we’re almost there! Today, not one, but TWO dramatic reads! One is ULTRA fantastic and the other will take you to the DARKSEID! Join us for a few more sips of the ol’ half pint.Getting to the dregs… of the beer! Of the beer! This episode is TOP NOTCH!
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